Podcast Episodes

Francesco Marconi & Scott Austin: 2025 Year in Review, What Actually Changed in AI and Media

2025 wasn’t just another year of AI experimentation in the media industry. It forced the industry to confront a bigger question: what happens when AI stops being just a newsroom tool and becomes the …

Published on 15 hours ago

Jim Friedlich, David Chivers & Matt Boggie: How the Lenfest AI Collaborative placed AI engineers in 10 newsrooms

The Philadelphia Inquirer never had an AI engineer on staff until the Lenfest AI Collaborative & Fellowship program changed that.

The collaborative is a $5 million partnership between the Lenfest Inst…

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

Tav Klitgaard: How Zetland turned a newsroom problem into a global AI business

Episode 77

This week on Newsroom Robots, host Nikita Roy is joined by Tav Klitgaard, the CEO of the Danish newsroom Zetland, to unpack the origin story of GoodTape — an AI transcription tool that began as an in…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Markus Franz: How Germany's Ippen Digital Is Prototyping the AI-Powered Newsroom of the Future

Episode 76

How do you redesign a newsroom’s entire workflow when AI is no longer a single tool, but a collection of agents, voice interfaces, and ambient intelligence changing how journalism gets produced?

This …

Published on 1 month ago

Olle Zacharison: How BBC News is Shaping its AI Strategy for the Next Era of Journalism

Episode 75

How do you bring AI into a newsroom as big and globally distributed as the BBC, an editorial network that stretches across 42 languages and more than 5,000 journalists?

This week on Newsroom Robots, h…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Vilas Dhar: Why the Future of Journalism Is Still Human

Episode 74

This week on Newsroom Robots, host Nikita Roy sits down with Vilas Dhar, President of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, one of the world's foremost philanthropies advancing AI for public good. Dhar…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Ludwig Siegele: Inside The Economist’s AI Playbook

Episode 73

How does a 182-year-old global magazine stay ahead in the age of generative AI? This week on Newsroom Robots, host Nikita Roy is joined by Ludwig Siegele, Senior Editor for AI Initiatives at The Econ…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Ivar Krustok: How Estonia’s Media Giant Builds AI That Actually Works

Episode 72

In Estonia, Delfi Meedia has built one of the strongest foundations for AI in journalism. With one of the highest digital subscription rates in the world, Delfi has moved beyond the buzz around AI to…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Djordje Padejski: Why AI Literacy Belongs at the Core of Journalism Education

Episode 71

As a new academic year begins, journalism schools face a defining challenge: how to prepare students for a profession being reshaped by AI.

At Stanford University, Djordje Padejski is leading the way.…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Sara Beykpour: The Next Chapter in News Aggregation

Episode 70

In this episode, host Nikita Roy  is joined by Sara Beykpour, co-founder and CEO of Particle News — the AI-powered news aggregator. Launched in November 2024, Particle blends multi-perspective covera…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago